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City of Portland Matagorda Co Republic of Texas. This Certificate for ------ Dollars will be received at par in payment for Lots...City of Portland ------ 1841 [Blanks for signatures of "Sec" and "Agnt"] [Along left of certificate:] J. Lowe, Galveston Texas. [1841.] [Symbolical illustrations] [At head:] $--- No. --- [This certificate, which is engraved and not printed, is the earliest example known to me of engraving done in Texas. I know of no other for the period of the bibliography. -Streeter, p. 144.] [Decorated with illustrations and borders in ornament areas.]

Dimensions

8.8 x 18.2 cm (3.46 x 7.17 in)

Place of Origin

Republic of Texas ; Portland (Matagorda County, Tex.)

Provenance

Broadside Collection-Box 1840-1845, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

Broadside Collection, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Local Resource Number

Box: BC DB 1840-1845 ; Streeter 450 ; Digital file: BC_129

Contributing Institution

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Rights

For information about reproductions or permissions, please contact the Briscoe Center, cah.photos@austin.utexas.edu or 512-495-4555.

Format

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Hill Texas Archive Research Notes

According to Edward Nicholas Clopper's An American Family; its ups and downs through eight generations in New Amsterdam, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Texas, from 1650 to 1880 [Cincinnati]; 1950, "The City of Portland, at the head of the raft on the Colorado River, Matagorda County & Republic of Texas, in the upper half of League No 7 which was granted by Deed of Stephen F. Austin, then Commissioner under the Mexican Govt to N. Clopper as his head right as a Colonist Settler under the then Mexican Govt & now without colour of dispute sanctioned by the Govt of the Republic of Texas, is situate [sic] about 8 or 10 miles from the City of Matagorda and perhaps near about the same distance from the City of Palacious."